Wayback
A self-hosted toolkit for archiving webpages to the Internet Archive, archive.today, IPFS, and local file systems.
Activity has dropped noticeably. Check the repository before committing to it.
Commit activity more than 14% of tracked projects; popularity more than 52%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 2.2k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v0.21.1 · 5 Jul 2026 |
| Repo updated | 5 Jul 2026 |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Built with | Go |
Is Wayback actively maintained?
Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 28 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 9 of them.
The most recent tagged release, v0.21.1, is about 3 months old.
Wayback ranks #15 of 19 tracked archiving and digital preservation (dp) projects. Several better-maintained options exist in the same category — they are listed below.
What Wayback actually does
Wayback is a self-hosted toolkit written in Go designed to archive webpages across multiple destinations. It allows you to save snapshots to the Internet Archive, archive.today, IPFS, and local storage backends from a single application. This helps ensure that web content you rely on remains accessible even if the original source disappears.
Best fit: It is a suitable fit if you want to automate digital preservation workflows for specific URLs or maintain independent local copies alongside public archives.
Worth knowing: The moderate maintenance level means you should monitor for upstream changes in the third-party archiving services it targets, which can occasionally break submission pipelines. Additionally, the GPL-3.0 licence requires you to make the source code available if you modify and distribute the software.
Deployment notes
As a compiled Go binary, it typically runs as a lightweight standalone process that benefits from a reverse proxy for TLS termination and persistent volumes for local archive storage.
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